Listen: National Young Farmers Coalition: Making farming more accessible

(DEC 18) You need land to farm, but access to land is wildly unequal. While roughly 60 percent of agriculture workers are people of color, the vast majority of farm owners are white. How can this deep-seeded inequity be fixed? The National Young Farmers Coalition released a new report, “Land Policy: Towards a More Equitable Farming Future” with lots of suggestions. Holly Rippon-Butler, Land Campaign Director for the National Young Farmers Coalition, explains what needs to happen next.